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UNINA9910813087803321 |
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Autore |
Choi Hyaeweol |
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Titolo |
Gender and mission encounters in Korea : new women, old ways / / Hyaeweol Choi |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Seoul-California series in Korean studies |
Global, area, and international archive |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Korea - History |
Women missionaries - Korea - History |
Women in missionary work - Korea - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Translation -- 1. Re-Orienting Gender -- 2. Gender Equality, a New Moral Order -- 3. The Lure and Danger of the Public Sphere -- 4. Disciplining the Modern Body and Mind -- 6. Doing It for Her Self: Sin yŏsŏng (New Women) in Korea -- 7. Conclusion New Women, Old Ways -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi shows that what it meant to be a "modern" Korean woman was deeply bound up in such diverse themes as Korean nationalism, Confucian gender practices, images of the West and Christianity, and growing desires for selfhood. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity. |
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